Inserting image suggestion.

[EricNgo1972]

MiniWord inserts images like:

ReportData["Photo"] = new MiniWordPicture() { Path="photo.jpg", Width = 200, Height = 150 };

But this gives you no control over styling in the .docx template — which breaks WYSIWYG template authoring.

Instead of using a text placeholder like {{Photo}}, it is better to:

• Add an actual image placeholder (invisible dummy image) in the Word template

• Let the C# code replace that image in-place, preserving its size and formatting

[EricNgo1972]

Currently I add post processing to MiniWord with code:

  private static void ReplaceImagesByAltText(WordprocessingDocument wordDoc, IDictionary imageMap)
  {
      //using var wordDoc = WordprocessingDocument.Open(docPath, true);

      var mainPart = wordDoc.MainDocumentPart;

      var drawings = mainPart.Document.Body.Descendants<DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.Drawing>().ToList();
                
      foreach (var drawing in drawings)
      {
          var docProps = drawing.Descendants<DocProperties>().FirstOrDefault();
          var altText = docProps.Description.ToString();
          if (docProps == null || !imageMap.Contains(altText)) continue;

          byte[] imageData = null;
          
//consider to use byte array instead of MiniWordPicture for simplitcity
          if(imageMap.GetValueByKey(altText) is MiniSoftware.MiniWordPicture pic) imageData = pic.Bytes;


          if (imageData is byte[] image && image.Length > 0)
          {

              var blip = drawing.Descendants<Blip>().FirstOrDefault();
              if (blip == null) continue; // Skip if no image

              var imagePartId = blip.Embed.Value;

              var imagePart = (ImagePart)mainPart.GetPartById(imagePartId);

              using var stream = imagePart.GetStream(FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write);
              stream.Write(image, 0, image.Length);
          }

      }
      
  }

The template image is replacing by running report image

[shps951023]

@EricNgo1972 Good suggestion! would you like to try PR?
Now I'm developing AI tool...